Sunday, July 20, 2014

Movie review - "Gorgo" (1961) **1/2

Impossible to dislike a British Godzilla knock off - a creature is awakened from the sea, gets captured, busts free and goes rampaging through the city. The quality of the cinematography is surprisingly high as are the production values. The casting of former MGM name Bill Travers gives the cast some quality too (although he disappears in the second half of the movie a lot).

The monster is admittedly laughable, but the climax has plenty of explosions, army officers barking orders, extras screaming and monsters knocking over buildings. And I liked the way it's about mum coming to rescue her son. This is good, dumb fun and I'm surprised there's not a bigger cult for it.

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